Personal Narrative

I probably cannot consider myself a gamer without some elitists breathing down my neck for the fact that I got into the genre rather late. My brother was the one that had pretty much every console. I remember some of the consoles he had: Atari, Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Playstation 1, Sega Game Gear, Xbox, Playstation 2, and Xbox 360. Whenever he was in a sharing mood, I was able to play his Nintendo or Genesis, and once he grew out of them, which was around the time that he got a Playstation, he gave me both consoles. Now, by that time, the systems had some wear and tear; I remember having to pay money for the Nintendo to be repaired, and the cartridges wouldn’t stay down so I always had to get something to stick in there to make them. My efforts seem to be all for nothing, as he took them with him to his apartment after moving out. They still remain in a box, not having seen the light of day since. He’s too preoccupied with his 360.

Not that I’m bitter.

I remember I was able to play the Super Mario games when my brother was being generous. As well as the Sonic games. I did play the Mortal Kombat games for a while before our mother saw how violent it was and I was banned from playing them. That is all I can really remember when I was a kid: playing Mario and Sonic. Besides some computer games like Concentration and Wheel of Fortune that were on our Windows 3.1 PC. Wheel of Fortune is pretty self explanatory. Concentration was a puzzle game. I’m trying to remember how you played... I think you had to uncover the squares and underneath was a puzzle to a phrase/action, and you had to guess it right...

Video games from my childhood are few, and I can hardly remember the ones that aren’t still alive today (i.e. Mario and Sonic). My first console was the handheld, Gameboy. I, of course, became addicted to Pokémon, just like the rest of the world. And after that, I received a Nintendo 64 for Christmas. But I still wasn’t an avid gamer back then. I played Mario Party and Cruisin’ USA. And no, I did not touch Zelda Ocarina of Time. My brother had that and Majora’s Mask, and I played five minutes of Ocarina before I lost focus and decided to do something else.

I received the Playstation 2 a year after it came out, before my brother even got it. I don’t even remember what games I got, I just remember later on I played a lot of Crazy Taxi and got frustrated with Dark Cloud. It wasn’t until high school that I started getting more into gaming. I was concentrating more into RPGs because that’s what my friends were into. I played a little bit of the Final Fantasy series, but I was really into Kingdom Hearts. I sometimes get into some of the racing games, but mostly am an RPG fan. I can usually cross over into any other genre except for sports games. I just can’t get interested in them (excluding Wii Sports). As for PC games, I never really got into them, excluding a brief stint into Ragnarok Online. I am more into playing on consoles.

Currently, I own a PS2, Wii, DS Lite, and PSP. One site that I do frequent is an LJ community known as Girl Gamers.

It seems I’ve grown to have an addiction to video games. I seriously cannot walk out of a game store without purchasing something. My current obsession lies in the Tales games by Namco, and I’m in the middle of Final Fantasy X.